*Picture is of the Calleach from Celtic Jewelry
An excerpt from If Women Rose Rooted: the Power of the Celtic Woman by Sharon Blackie
The story of Gawain and Lady Ragnelle is an old one; the motif (in which the question ‘What do women want?’ must be answered in order for a king or a knight to survive a threat to his life) appears in numerous tales throughout the medieval period, including ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The answer to the question is always ‘Sovereignty’.
Some of the stories go on to interpret this as women wanting sovereignty in the simple sense – that is, control over their own lives, the right to make their own choices; others go on to interpret it as women wishing to have power over men.
But at another level, the answer is plan enough: women want Sovereignty – to take up their ancient role as the moral and spiritual authority of the land.
In our native myths and stories, Sovereignty represents the creative, regenerative, life-giving feminine principle; when it is balanced by the good masculine – when the goddess of the land enters into a sacred marriage with the true king of the people – then the land is fertile and the people safe from harm.
–From Chapter 7: the Enchanted Forest, Restoring the Balance
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